New observational constraints on the growth of the First Supermassive Black Holes
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(2) The Astrophysical Journal, 778:130 (9pp), 2013 December 1. Treister et al.. Figure 2. Effective background-subtracted signal in the soft X-ray (0.5–2 keV) band measured using the procedure described by Treister et al. (2011) and the background subtraction algorithm of Cowie et al. (2012) for the sources in the F12 and the combined samples as a function of off-axis angle. The observed background-subtracted counts are weighted to account for the differences in exposure time, aperture corrections, and sensitivity, as described by Treister et al. (2011). Clearly, no source is individually detected beyond the 3σ level. Furthermore, the total signal is consistent with zero, thus confirming that no detection in the stacked samples is found either. (A color version of this figure is available in the online journal.). Figure 1. Position in the sky of the sources considered in our work. The filled circles show the galaxy candidates from the sample of F12, while the squares present the LBGs from the work of B06 (z ∼ 6) and B11 (z ∼ 7 and z ∼ 8). Sources at z ∼ 6 are shown in black, the sources at z ∼ 7 in red, and the sources at z ∼ 8 in blue. The field is centered in the aimpoint of the CDF-S observations, while the green line shows an 8 radius circle. Sources inside this circle were considered for X-ray stacking. The two groups clearly visible outside the green circle correspond to the Hubble parallel fields. (A color version of this figure is available in the online journal.). with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to date from the HUDF and CANDELS. We take advantage of the 4 Ms Chandra observations of the Chandra Deep Field–South (CDF-S)—the deepest X-ray observation ever taken—in order to constrain the integrated accreted BH mass density at z > 6 and compare with existing models of BH formation and early growth. Throughout this article, we assume a ΛCDM cosmology with h0 = 0.7, Ωm = 0.27, and ΩΛ = 0.73 (Hinshaw et al. 2009).. from the Chandra pointing center. The solid area covered by the z ∼ 6 B06 sample is ∼160 arcmin2 , i.e., the GOODS-S region, which is almost completely included in the Chandra 8 radius. At z ∼ 7 and z ∼ 8, sources are strongly clustered in the ∼5 arcmin2 field. In the case of the F12 sample, sources are spread more evenly across the field, while a higher density is still observed in the HUDF region, due to the deeper data available there. None of these high-z candidates are detected individually in X-rays (using a 2 search radius). Figures 2 and 3 show the effective X-ray counts of each source—further details can be found in Treister et al. (2011) and Cowie et al. (2012)—for the sources in the B06, F12, and combined samples. The X-ray properties of the sources at z ∼ 7 and z ∼ 8 in the B11 sample, not shown in these figures, are similar to those in the F12 sample at those redshifts. As can be clearly seen, no individual source is detected beyond the ∼3σ level in either the observed-frame soft (0.5–2 keV) or hard (2–8 keV) Chandra bands. Therefore, we aim to detect X-ray emission from these sources using stacking. Specifically, we followed the procedure of Treister et al. (2011), modified to improve the background subtraction as described in Cowie et al. (2012). The main goal of this procedure is to optimize the resulting signal-to-noise ratio (S/N), by introducing a variable aperture size as a function of the off-axis angle relative to the Chandra aimpoint. In order to maximize the S/N and avoid biasing our estimations of the local background, we only considered sources closer than 8 from the Chandra aimpoint (03.h 32.m 28.s 06,−27.◦ 48. 26. 4; Xue et al. 2011) that do not have a detected X-ray source at <15 . With these constraints, we stacked 223, 16, and 11 sources at z ∼ 6, z ∼ 7, and z ∼ 8 from the B06 and B11 samples,. 2. OBSERVATIONAL RESULTS Thanks to the 4 Ms Chandra observations (Xue et al. 2011), CDF-S is the field with the deepest currently available X-ray observations. Our target sample of high-z galaxy candidates was constructed using a combination of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs), selected using the optical and near-IR selection techniques described by, e.g., Bouwens et al. (2006, hereafter B06), and galaxies at z > 6 based on their photometric redshifts obtained by performing spectral fitting. Using the deep HST observations available in this field, B06 reported the finding of 371 z ∼ 6 galaxy candidates, while later observations obtained using the WFC3 camera allowed for the detection of 66 at z ∼ 7 and 47 at z ∼ 8 (Bouwens et al. 2011, hereafter B11). More recently, Finkelstein et al. (2012, hereafter F12), using the HST/ WFC3 observations of the CANDELS fields, obtained a sample of 223 galaxies at z ∼ 6, 80 at z ∼ 7, and 33 at z ∼ 8, all of them selected via photometric redshifts. The combination of these sources constitutes the main sample for this work. As can be seen in Figure 1, the sources are not evenly distributed in the sky. The density is higher in the HUDF, which is expected given the deeper optical and near-IR observations available there. On average, sources in the HUDF are ∼3 away 2.
(3) The Astrophysical Journal, 778:130 (9pp), 2013 December 1. Treister et al. Table 1 Stacking Results. Net Countsa. Redshift B06. B11. Count Rateb. F12. Combined. (3σ ). (s−1 ). Fluxb (erg. cm−2 s−1 ). Lumb (erg. s−1 ). BH Massb,c (M Mpc−3 ). Soft Band (0.5–2 keV) z∼6 z∼7 z∼8. −3.4 ± 6.2 ... .... ... 0.7 ± 1.4 1.6 ± 1.7. −3.6 ± 4.7 −0.6 ± 2.5 0.7 ± 1.9. −4.0 ± 6.5 (272)d −0.4 ± 2.6 (46)d 1.9 ± 2.1(23)d. <8.9×10−8 <1.9×10−7 <3.0×10−7. <6.5×10−19 <1.2×10−18 <2.0×10−18. <2.6×1041 <6.8×1041 <1.5×1042. <851 <666 <674. <3.4×10−18 <7.9×10−18 <1.1×10−17. <1.6×1042 <5.3×1042 <9.8×1042. <4750 <4704 <4346. Hard Band (2–8 keV) z∼6 z∼7 z∼8. −6.3 ± 9.1 ... .... ... 0.2 ± 2.4 −4.7 ± 2.1. −3.3 ± 6.7 1.8 ± 4.1 −0.4 ± 2.6. <1.7×10−7 <3.9×10−7 <5.4×10−7. −9.1 ± 9.4 1.5 ± 4.1 −1.8 ± 2.8. Notes. a Background-subtracted, stacked counts. b For the combined sample. c Accreted black hole mass density. d Number of stacked sources in the combined sample.. Figure 3. Effective background-subtracted counts in the hard X-ray (2–8 keV) band measured using the procedure described by Treister et al. (2011) and the background subtraction algorithm of Cowie et al. (2012) for the sources in the F12 and the combined samples as a function of off-axis angle. The symbols are the same as in Figure 2. As in the previous case, no source is individually detected in this band beyond the 3σ level. (A color version of this figure is available in the online journal.). Figure 4. Distribution of S/N obtained for 500 independent stacks, in which the position of each stacked source was shifted randomly in the soft (left panel) and hard (right panel) Chandra bands. The gray dashed lines in each panel show the best-fitting Gaussian fits, with mean 0 (0.5 for the hard band) and standard deviation 1.. we performed independent stacks for different cuts in optical and near-IR fluxes. None of these stacks yielded a significant detection either. To establish the statistical significance of the non-detections in the entire sample and translate them into upper limits on the stacked X-ray emission, we perform independent Monte Carlo simulations for each of these samples. This is done by computing the obtained S/N in 500 stacks, in which the position of each stacked source was shifted randomly in right ascension and declination in the 5 –15 range. For both bands, the resulting distributions are well fitted by Gaussian functions with mean 0 and standard deviation 1, as expected. The S/N distributions obtained in our Monte Carlo simulations are shown in Figure 4. We then compute 3σ upper limits for the X-ray emission from these samples. Focusing solely on the joint samples, in order to. respectively, and 137, 40, and 20 sources from the sample of F12. Our results are presented in Table 1. As can be seen, there is no significant detection in any of the samples, thus contradicting the earlier results claimed by Treister et al. (2011). This confirms that, as presented by Willott (2011) and Cowie et al. (2012), the results in Treister et al. (2011) likely arise from their background subtraction technique. As shown in Figure 1, given that the depth of the optical and near-IR coverage of the field studied here is not homogeneous, and that we did not obtain a significant detection by stacking the entire sample of galaxies at z ∼ 6, z ∼ 7, and z ∼ 8, we attempted to stack the most luminous optical/near-IR galaxies, which can be detected across the whole field. Specifically, 3.
(4) The Astrophysical Journal, 778:130 (9pp), 2013 December 1. Treister et al.. maximize the number of sources, we find for the z ∼ 6 sources an upper limit for the X-ray luminosity of 2.6 × 1041 erg s−1 in the soft band, ∼2× smaller than the upper limit reported by Cowie et al. (2012). This is as expected due to the increased sample size providing a tighter upper limit. In the hard band, we compute an upper limit of 1.6 × 1042 erg s−1 . Similarly, for the z ∼ 7 galaxies the upper limits are 6.8 × 1041 erg s−1 and 5.3 × 1042 erg s−1 in the soft and hard bands, respectively. At z ∼ 8, these are 1.5 × 1042 erg s−1 and 9.8 × 1042 erg s−1 . Similar measurements were performed recently by Fiore et al. (2012) and Basu-Zych et al. (2013), among others, finding consistent results. For example, Basu-Zych et al. (2013) report upper limits in the rest-frame 2–10 keV band of 4.2×1041 erg s−1 at z ∼ 6, 9.5 × 1041 erg s−1 at z ∼ 7, and 1.6 × 1042 erg s−1 at z ∼ 8. These are slightly higher but fully consistent with the upper limits for the stacked X-ray luminosities reported here. The (small) differences can be due to the stacking technique used and the minor differences between the galaxy samples. It is important to note that both the samples of B06 and F12 explicitly exclude point-like (spatially unresolved) sources. Most of the high-z galaxy candidates are spatially resolved, and so only a small fraction of sources (∼5%) are removed by this requirement. While this is done to reduce the stellar contamination, it could represent a bias against unobscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in which the nuclear emission dominates the optical light. In order to test for the possible effects of this criterion, we independently stack the sample of 11 point-like i-dropouts in the HDF-S reported by Bouwens et al. (2006), in their Table 3. Consistent with the results obtained from the resolved sample, we do not find a significant detection in X-ray stacking in either the soft or the hard Chandra bands. Therefore, we conclude that the exclusion of point-like sources from our main samples does not affect the results reported here.. relation to z ∼ 6 enables the translation of the upper limits of the X-ray luminosity obtained above to SFRs of >210 M yr−1 for the z ∼ 6 samples, >460 M yr−1 at z ∼ 7, and >1000 M yr−1 at z ∼ 8. In comparison, these upper limits on the SFRs are significantly higher, by an order of magnitude or more, than the estimated values for the SFR reported by González et al. (2010) and Curtis-Lake et al. (2013) of ∼5–20 M yr−1 for individual galaxies at these redshifts. 3.1. Accreted Black Hole Mass Density From the stacked upper limits to the X-ray luminosity, we can derive the accreted black hole mass density in these galaxies. In order to do this, we follow the procedure outlined in the supplementary information section presented by Treister et al. (2011). Briefly, we base our calculation on the so-called ‘Soltan argument’ (Soltan 1982), from which we have that the integrated black hole mass density is given by ∞ ∞ dt 1− ρBH (z) = dz Lbol Ψ(L, z) dL, (1) dz c2 z 0 where. Lbol = kcorr LX. (2). and kcorr is the bolometric correction for the rest-frame hard X-ray band. For simplicity, following Treister et al. (2011), we assume that kcorr = 25 independent of luminosity and redshift. Then, assuming that the AGN luminosity function (LF) does not evolve significantly at z > 6, we obtain that ∞ (1 − )kcorr ∞ dt dz ρBH (z) = LX Ψ(L) dL. (3) c2 dz z 0 Here, the second integral on the right side can be determined directly from the observed integrated AGN emissivity. Further assuming a constant radiation efficiency = 0.1, we obtain the upper limits for the accreted black hole mass density at z ∼ 6, 7, and 8 reported in Table 1. In comparison, following the same procedure but using the upper limits in the rest-frame hard band and number of sources reported by Basu-Zych et al. (2013), we obtain BH mass densities of 990, 1142, and 1263 M Mpc−3 at z ∼ 6, 7, and 8, respectively. These values are slightly higher but fully consistent with our results. In Figure 5, we show the density of accreted mass onto SMBHs as a function of redshift. In addition to our upper limits at 6 < z < 8, we include the constraints derived by Salvaterra et al. (2012) using the unresolved fraction of the cosmic X-ray background (CXRB), which are less restrictive than our upper limits. However, in contrast to our work, they are independent of the completeness of the galaxy sample studied and correspond to an integral constraint. However, as discussed in Salvaterra et al. (2012), they are affected by degeneracies in the assumed CXRB model, in particular with low-luminosity sources at lower redshifts. Furthermore, as argued by Treister et al. (2009b), the uncertainty in the measurements of the CXRB and discrepancies between those derived by different missions can be ∼10% of the total value, which is orders of magnitude larger than the signal expected to be measured. In Figure 5, we compare these upper limits with the predictions from the models of Volonteri (2010). In these models, two “seed” formation models are considered: those deriving from Population III star remnants (Pop III), and those from direct collapse models. Independent of the seed mass, in this scheme black holes grow primarily via accretion episodes triggered by. 3. DISCUSSION With the upper limits obtained above, we can derive the most stringent observational constraints to date on the early growth of the first SMBHs. We first note that the upper limits obtained here are lower than the standard threshold for AGN-dominated X-ray emission (e.g., Szokoly et al. 2004), ∼1042 erg s−1 . Therefore, we can conclude that either no luminous AGNs are present in any of the samples studied here or the occupation fraction of such AGNs is so low that the signal gets diluted in the stacking procedure. If we proceed under the assumption that the luminosity of these sources derives entirely from star formation (i.e., no AGNs are present), as proposed previously by Cowie et al. (2012), these upper limits can then in turn be used as an observational constraint on the average star formation rate (SFR). Taking into account the tight correlation between X-ray luminosity and SFR in absence of AGN emission measured by Ranalli et al. (2003) and more recently by Lehmer et al. (2010), we can compute an upper limit for the average SFR in these samples. Since these are relatively low mass galaxies, with typical stellar masses <1010 M (González et al. 2011), we can safely neglect the contribution of low-mass X-ray binaries to the total X-ray luminosity. Therefore, we can assume that the X-ray luminosity is proportional to the SFR, with a relation given by LH X = β SFR, where LHX is the rest-frame 2–10 keV luminosity and β = 1.62 × 1039 erg s−1 ( M yr−1 )−1 (Lehmer et al. 2010). While this was established from observations of z 0 galaxies, no evolution in this correlation has been observed up to z ∼1.3 (Mineo et al. 2012). Assuming that we can extrapolate this 4.
(5) The Astrophysical Journal, 778:130 (9pp), 2013 December 1. Treister et al.. Figure 6. Accreted BH mass density as a function of redshift, comparing with the models of Bonoli et al. (2012). The symbols for the observational data are the same as in Figure 5. The dot-dashed cyan line only considers light (Pop III) BH seeds, while the solid black line and the blue dotted line include both Pop III and direct collapse seeds. The dashed blue line also considers both seed types, but in this case massive seeds can also form in 1:10 mergers. For these models, marginal agreement with observations is obtained at z < 3, while they are at the same time consistent with our upper limits at z > 6. (A color version of this figure is available in the online journal.). Figure 5. Accreted BH mass density as a function of redshift. The gray rectangle shows the range of values allowed by observations of z 0 galaxies (Shankar et al. 2009), while the filled circles show the observations of BH accreted mass density traced by AGN activity in the 0 < z < 5 range compiled by Hopkins et al. (2007) and measured by Treister et al. (2009a) at z ∼ 2. At higher redshifts, we show the CXRB integral constraint derived by Salvaterra et al. (2012; upper limit with dotted error bars) and the upper limits at z = 6–9 obtained in this work. The red and blue lines show the predicted BH mass density if self-regulation, as described in Section 3.2, is incorporated, for Pop III and direct collapse BH seeds, respectively. The cyan and green lines show the results from these models if no regulation is assumed. (A color version of this figure is available in the online journal.). the triggering methods, and their redshift dependence. As can be seen in Figure 6, while these models are consistent with our observed upper limits at z > 6, they are only marginally consistent with lower redshift constraints. Furthermore, it is important to note that these models do not include BH growth by secular processes, which can represent a significant fraction of the total BH accretion (Treister et al. 2012; Bellovary et al. 2013), and that the strong decrease in mass density at high redshifts can be due to the limited resolution of the simulations. In summary, we can conclude that spanning the whole range of BH growth, from the most luminous quasars, which require massive BHs and very high near-Eddington accretion rates, to our upper limits at z > 6, which suggest accretion levels lower than ∼10% Eddington, is very difficult to track in simulations and requires strong redshift evolution in most scaling relations (Volonteri & Stark 2011). Comparing with extrapolations of AGN LFs, as shown in Figure 7, the value reported by Willott et al. (2010b)—based on observations of high-z optical quasars—is consistent with the upper limits derived here. Similarly, the bolometric LF of Hopkins et al. (2007) provides a good description of the observed accreted BH mass density at z < 4 and is consistent with our upper limits. In contrast, while the prediction of Treister et al. (2009b), based on an extrapolation of the Ueda et al. (2003) AGN LF, provides the best description of the observational data up to z ∼ 5, it is clearly inconsistent with the 6 < z < 9 upper limits derived in this work, and in marginal agreement with the constraints of Salvaterra et al. (2012). It is important to note that the tension between the upper limits reported here and at least some of the extrapolations of the AGN LF to high redshifts can be alleviated if uncertainties. galaxy mergers. This growth can be either self-regulated or unregulated. Details of the implementation of this self-regulation can be found in the supplementary section of Treister et al. (2011). In a nutshell, in the self-regulated model, each black hole accretes an amount of mass, corresponding to 90% of the mass predicted by the local MBH –σ relation (Gültekin et al. 2009), while in the unregulated mode the mass is simply doubled during each accretion episode. For this set of models, the only one that satisfies the z > 6 upper limits assumes light black hole seeds (Pop III) and no self-regulation. However, this model fails to account for the observed BH mass density at lower redshifts. Other models (e.g., Booth & Schaye 2009; Dubois et al. 2012) predict a much steeper decline in BH mass density at high redshifts and thus are consistent with our observed upper limits. As an example, in Figure 6, we compare our observational results with the predictions from the models of Bonoli et al. (2012), which incorporate both light (Pop III) and massive (direct collapse) BH seeds. These models assume that a massive, direct collapse seed forms whenever there is a major merger (<1:3 mass ratio) of massive galaxies that do not already contain a massive BH, as suggested by Mayer et al. (2010), although this scenario was later questioned by Ferrara et al. (2013). Further BH growth is then triggered by both major and minor mergers. The main differences between the models compared here and observations, which can explain the differences in BH mass density at high redshift, are the formation epoch of black hole seeds that extends up to nearly z ∼ 0 in the Bonoli et al. (2012) models, the assumed average accretion rate, linked to 5.
(6) The Astrophysical Journal, 778:130 (9pp), 2013 December 1. Treister et al.. (2001), it is theoretically possible and permissible that at high redshifts only a small fraction of the galaxies actually harbor an SMBH. For example, Menou et al. (2001) showed that with a BH occupation fraction as low as ∼10% at z = 5 there are ample seeds for all the galaxies in the local universe to harbor a central SMBH. This is explained by the sequence of mergers that dark matter halos will experience across cosmic history that will populate black holes into galactic nuclei that are initially bereft of them. What fraction of occupied galaxies host actively accreting ones is a further question. If indeed less than ∼1 in 10 of the galaxies studied here actually contain an SMBH and perhaps only a fraction of them are actively growing, our X-ray stacking procedure will not be sensitive enough to detect them. This could clearly explain and account for our observational results. However, it is possible that our sample of LBGs contains SMBHs, but they are not actually growing. Indeed, at lower redshifts, z ∼ 3, the fraction of AGNs in LBGs is relatively low, ∼3% (Nandra et al. 2002; Laird et al. 2006; Hainline et al. 2012). Likewise, in the recent study of Cowie et al. (2012), samples of LBGs at z ∼ 3, 4, and 5 were not detected in sensitive X-ray stacks, thus suggesting a low AGN fraction for our sample of LBGs at z > 6 if this trend were to hold at higher redshifts as well. Therefore, while the occupation fraction might be high, the AGN fraction appears to be very low for this sample. As a caveat, there are significant differences between those lower redshift samples and the z > 6 LBGs studied in our work here. For example, high-redshift LBGs have significantly lower stellar masses and similar or higher SFRs (by no more than a factor of two difference between z ∼ 3 and z ∼ 4; Verma et al. 2007; Reddy et al. 2012), and thus much higher specific SFRs (sSFRs), indicative of higher gas fractions. In recent studies, de Barros et al. (2012) and Stark et al. (2013) report a significant increase in the sSFRs observed in LBGs with redshifts. In addition, at z < 3 it has been shown that the AGN fraction is a strong function of the stellar mass of the host galaxy (Xue et al. 2010; Mullaney et al. 2012 and references therein), ranging from a few percent at ∼ 109 M to >20% at >1011 M , thus suggesting a low AGN fraction for our sample of LBGs at z > 6. However, while our galaxies, at stellar masses ∼109 M , will be amongst the less massive galaxies at z < 3, they are some of the most massive ones at z > 6, as even ∼1010 M galaxies are very rare (González et al. 2011). These differences strongly suggest that while the AGN fraction in relatively low z LBGs is low, the expectation is for a higher fraction in higher redshift LBG populations. The very low accretion rates estimated in these galaxies are particularly puzzling as the host galaxies are known to have very high sSFRs of ∼2–20 Gyr−1 (González et al. 2010). This means that the galaxies that make up our X-ray stacks are efficiently converting gas to stars, which in turn corresponds to high gas fractions. These galaxies, however, appear unable to fuel growth of a central SMBH. One plausible explanation for our results is that only a small fraction of these drop-out galaxies actually harbor a central BH. However, if they do indeed harbor BHs at their centers, why are they not accreting with a significant duty cycle? On the one hand, our results mimic the findings of Laird et al. (2006) in their X-ray analysis of z ∼ 3 LBGs, wherein they report no evidence that LBGs, which are certainly galaxies in which active star formation is occurring, are also preferentially active in nuclear black hole accretion. On the other hand, the non-LBG population at lower redshift (z ∼ 3), with comparable sSFRs to these higher redshift sources, does appear to have. Figure 7. Comparison between the observed accreted mass density in SMBHs and expectations from AGN LFs. The observed symbols are the same as in Figure 5. The red and blue lines show the values inferred from the LFs of Silverman et al. (2008) and Hopkins et al. (2007), respectively, while the point at z = 6–7 was obtained from the quasar LF of Willott et al. (2010b). The black line assumes the hard X-ray AGN LF of Ueda et al. (2003), as modified by Treister et al. (2009b). (A color version of this figure is available in the online journal.). in the former are considered. For example, a constant radiation efficiency was assumed, while it is possible that most of the BH growth is radiatively inefficient. Similarly, if most of the black hole growth at high redshift is heavily obscured, it would change our assumed bolometric corrections, thus moving the reported upper limits toward higher accreted black hole mass densities. These effects and others are discussed in more detail in the following section. 3.2. Where Are the Growing Black Holes? Our observations thus pose a puzzle: the X-ray stack of a sample of star-forming high-redshift dropout galaxies shows rather feeble or no signs of BH accretion, despite a favorable environment for accretion—a gas-rich galaxy. We now reflect on what this means in the context of both existing models (e.g., Volonteri 2010) and extrapolations of the AGN LF (e.g., Treister et al. 2009b). We discuss a number of possible explanations, which are neither exhaustive nor mutually exclusive. We note that there is a crucial distinction between occupation fraction for SMBHs and AGN fraction. The occupation fraction is a measure of whether a galaxy or halo is seeded with a BH regardless of whether or not it is actively accreting. If it is actively accreting, it is classified as an AGN and contributes to the estimate of the AGN fraction. For example, even with a high occupation fraction, it is possible that only in a small subset of the galaxies studied here is the BH actively accreting and growing, thus revealing itself as an AGN. The first possibility to consider is that the galaxies included in our samples do not contain SMBHs, or only a small fraction of them do. If this is the case, this is telling us about the efficiency of seed formation. Indeed, as described by, e.g., Menou et al. 6.
(7) The Astrophysical Journal, 778:130 (9pp), 2013 December 1. Treister et al.. observations to be significantly affected by obscuration would require extremely high levels of obscuration, up to Comptonthick column densities, NH ∼ 1024 cm−2 . While an increased contribution at high redshift of such heavy obscurations is certainly possible (e.g., Moretti et al. 2012), the observations in the observed-frame hard band trace rest-frame energies of ∼30 keV, at the peak of the AGN X-ray emission, even for heavily obscured sources. These upper limits, which are ∼10 times higher than those obtained in the observed-frame soft Chandra band, while they would be in marginal agreement with most existing models and expectations, will still generate tension. The lack of any mildly obscured and unobscured AGNs at this redshift also raises puzzling questions regarding unification, though perhaps the explanation lies in the high gas density expected in high-sSFR, compact galaxies—high column densities in all (4π ) directions. Indeed, at lower redshifts, Xue et al. (2012) found that most of the low-luminosity AGNs at similarly low host galaxy stellar masses show evidence for significant obscuration. Finally, we are implicitly assuming here that black hole growth is due to a radiation-efficient matter accretion (i.e., the Soltan argument). While this is certainly true in general (e.g., Yu & Tremaine 2002; Marconi et al. 2004), it is possible that is not the case in the early universe. Specifically, and as argued by Shapiro (2005) and Petri et al. (2012), at z > 6 BH growth due to mergers might dominate over accretion processes. If this is indeed the case, BH growth may not be accompanied by luminous emission, or at least not electromagnetic radiation, and thus our X-ray observations are unable to detect it.. high observed AGN fractions, albeit at higher stellar masses (Mullaney et al. 2012). The globally averaged SFR density as a function of redshift appears to track the accretion rate density onto luminous quasars rather well, and this has led us to believe that star formation and black hole growth occur in tandem, at least from a statistical point of view (Merloni et al. 2004; Zheng et al. 2009). However, this definitely does not imply that this concordance occurs in every galaxy. LBGs might just not be the sites that harbor the most actively growing black holes at z > 6. By selection, our galaxy sample is composed of the most massive galaxies at these redshifts, with stellar masses ∼109 M , and are essentially dustfree (e.g., Bouwens et al. 2010; Wilkins et al. 2011). Thus, it is possible that our stack does not contain the population of galaxies whose BHs are actively growing at 6 < z < 8, if this growth is restricted to dustier and/or less massive galaxies. Such galaxies will be below the detection threshold for even the deepest optical/near-IR surveys carried out by large groundbased telescopes or the HST. This implies either that only relatively small black holes are growing in the early universe or that it is possible at high redshifts for small galaxies to contain substantial central black holes. This possibility of obese BH galaxies has been recently explored by Agarwal et al. (2013). This scenario indicates that while it appears that the globally averaged SFR and BH accretion rates track each other in the universe by and large, these properties are not tightly coupled for all individual sub-samples/sub-populations of galaxies. Hence, co-evolution may not occur for every galaxy at the same time. For instance, in most optically detected quasars, the SMBH accretion rate is typically much higher than 10−3 × the SFR (see Figure 2 in Willott et al. 2013), while X-ray stacking of z ∼ 2 star-forming galaxies suggests that the SMBH accretion rate is at the level 10−3 × the SFR, the scaling needed for co-evolution of the SMBH mass with stellar mass (Mullaney et al. 2012). Clearly, the relative timescales of SMBH growth and SFR (Netzer 2009) are a key determinant in the establishment of the correlations between SMBHs and host galaxies, as well as in the interpretation of observational results. Alternatively, it is also possible that these samples contain a significant fraction of low-z interlopers. The most likely interlopers for high-z galaxy samples include reddened and/ or old galaxies at z ∼ 1–2, low-mass stars, and spurious or transient sources. All of them have lower X-ray fluxes than average AGNs and therefore would artificially decrease the signal in our stacks. The contamination fraction in z > 6 galaxy samples has been extensively debated in the past, as shown, for example, in Appendix D of Bouwens et al. (2006). These results and others indicate that typical contamination levels are ∼10% or lower (e.g., Bouwens et al. 2011). If this is indeed the case, the existence of this relatively insignificant fraction of low-redshift interlopers cannot significantly change our results or explain the lack of an X-ray detection. However, it is possible that these contamination levels have been significantly underestimated, given that the contribution of more exotic galaxies, such as those with extreme emission lines (Brammer et al. 2013), cannot be properly accounted for. As proposed by Treister et al. (2011), it is possible that a large fraction of the emission due to accretion onto SMBHs in the early universe is obscured by large amounts of gas and dust. Our more restrictive constraints here were obtained from the observed-frame soft Chandra band, 0.5–2 keV, which at these high redshifts corresponds to rest-frame energies of ∼2–10 keV, i.e., the observed-frame hard Chandra band. Therefore, for these. 3.3. Black Hole Masses The lack of detection of luminous, individually detected AGNs at z > 6 in deep X-ray surveys, together with the upper limits reported here, poses interesting and strong limits on the early growth and formation mechanisms for SMBHs. For example, assuming a canonical 10% bolometric correction for hard X-ray emission (e.g., Treister et al. 2009b) and accretion at the Eddington limit implies average BH masses smaller than 2.7×104 M for the z ∼ 6 sample (and lower than ∼3×105 M for a more typical 10% Eddington ratio), for an AGN fraction of 100%. (If a lower AGN fraction is assumed instead, BH masses should be scaled upward accordingly. For example, they will be smaller than ∼3 × 106 M for a 10% AGN fraction at a 10% Eddington ratio.) Furthermore, the luminous quasars detected by optical surveys at z > 6 do contain massive BHs (>108 M ) that appear to be accreting near their Eddington limits (Willott et al. 2010a). If the typical galaxy at those redshifts had a smaller BH (scaled-down version from the most luminous quasars) growing at similar Eddington ratios or even lower by an order of magnitude, we would have detected them in our study (once the caveats presented in Section 3.2 are taken into account). In contrast, many models used to explain the formation and evolution of SMBHs assume large Eddington ratios, 30%, thus resulting in relatively massive BHs growing rapidly in the early universe. For example, the models of Volonteri (2010), in which the accretion is driven by merger-triggered episodes, which tend to bring the resulting BH into the observed M–σ correlation, predict that by z ∼ 6 the average masses of the actively growing BHs should be in the ∼106 M range, in marginal agreement with our observations, if relatively low accretion rates and AGN fractions are assumed. A key point to note here about the models is that they hinge on the circular velocity (and therefore halo mass) as the lever for black hole seed masses and the regulation 7.
(8) The Astrophysical Journal, 778:130 (9pp), 2013 December 1. Treister et al.. of growth during accretion episodes. In fact, in all current models, it is assumed that the accreted mass is proportional to some power of the circular velocity. We caution that it is unclear what the halo masses are for these drop-out galaxies; what we have are only estimates of their average stellar masses. Most BH growth models provide scaling relationships specifically between halo mass and black hole mass and not stellar mass, so direct comparison is complicated by the need to make additional assumptions about the efficiency of star formation in the early universe. Given the observed correlation between BH mass and both bulge (Häring & Rix 2004) and total stellar mass (Jahnke et al. 2009) for nearby galaxies, we can estimate the BH mass corresponding to the galaxies in our sample, assuming of course that this correlation holds at high redshifts. Stellar masses were provided for the F12 sample, as derived from spectral fitting. The average stellar mass for the z ∼ 6 galaxy sample is 109 M (see also Curtis-Lake et al. 2013), which implies, using the Jahnke et al. (2009) relation, that typical BH masses are expected to be ∼106 M . This assumes no redshift evolution in the MBH –M∗ relation, consistent with the findings up to z ∼ 1 of, e.g., Cisternas et al. (2011). Such BH masses are still consistent with the upper limits measured here, provided that both the AGN fraction and the Eddington accretion rates are ∼10% or lower. The growth rate of a BH scales as. growth in the general galaxy population can be delayed in some cases until much lower redshifts, as suggested by Volonteri & Begelman (2010) and more recently by Bonoli et al. (2012). A particularly remarkable example of such systems was discovered and reported by Schawinski et al. (2011) at z = 1.35. Our results strongly suggest that the individual sites where the bulk of the stars form at 6 < z < 8 may not be the sites that harbor the most massive black holes. Interestingly, many similarities exist between our results and the conclusions drawn by Willott et al. (2010a), based on the comparison between the SMBH and galaxy mass functions at z ∼ 6, that most galaxies at that time formed their stars much more rapidly than their SMBHs grew or that SMBH seeding is inefficient. This conclusion does not of course apply to the most luminous quasars at that epoch, where an increase of the ratio between SMBH mass and galaxy mass is in fact observed. Therefore, the most massive SMBHs in the most massive galaxies/halos are actively accreting and are on or above the correlation with their hosts (e.g., Wang et al. 2010, and references therein), while at lower galaxy mass either many galaxies do not have SMBHs, or these SMBHs are much less massive than expected, or they are not accreting or obscured. Therefore, there could be significant variations in the strength of the correlation between BH growth and star formation in individual galaxies, or its dependence on galaxy mass (Volonteri & Stark 2011).. M(t) = M0 × exp(fedd × Δt × (1 − )/( × 0.45 Gyr)), (4). We thank the anonymous referee for a careful and thoughtful reading and several useful suggestions, and Dan Coe and Rychard Bouwens for useful discussions on the HUDF data. Support for the work of E.T. was provided by the Center of Excellence in Astrophysics and Associated Technologies (PFB 06), by the FONDECYT regular grant 1120061, and by the Anillo project ACT1101. K.S. gratefully acknowledges support from Swiss National Science Foundation grant PP00P2_138979/1. P.N. acknowledges support from the NSF TCAN program via grant AST-1332858.. where Δt is the time allowed for growth and fedd is the Eddington ratio, ∼0.1 in the example above. An AGN fraction of 10% translates into a 10% duty cycle, i.e., Δt is <10% of the Hubble time at the redshift of interest, of the order of 1 Gyr at z ∼ 6. Since with these figures the term in the exponent is very small, 0.2 or less, this implies that in this picture BHs do not gain significant mass in the early stages of the universe. 4. CONCLUSIONS We present here the X-ray properties of samples of z ∼ 6, 7, and 8 galaxy candidates in the CDF-S. None of these galaxies are detected in X-ray, either individually or collectively via stacking. This non-detection via the consequent upper limit on the accreted mass density of <1000 M Mpc−3 offers the most stringent constraints on black hole growth in the early universe. This is particularly surprising, as our X-ray stacking observations are sensitive enough to detect even moderate amounts of accretion in relatively small black holes. Furthermore, such low accretion levels contradict the predictions of several black hole formation and evolution models and the expectations based on extrapolations of existing AGN LFs. Explaining these results requires that these high-redshift dropout galaxies, which are now routinely found and studied by HST and large ground-based telescopes, (1) do not contain SMBHs; or (2) if they contain black holes, then these are not growing; or (3) the black hole growth if occurring is heavily obscured and/or not radiating efficiently in X-rays. If BHs are present in these galaxies, we return to the question of why they are not accreting, in particular since they appear to have significant amounts of gas, given their high sSFRs. 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